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Movie Preview: Crispin Glover takes on a Lon Chaney silent classic — “A Blind Bargain”

Paul Bunnell directed and co-wrote this “reimagining” of a horror silent film from 1922, starring Lon Chaney then, Crispin Glover today. It was about a doctor who experiments on a man in exchange for giving medical care to the “subject’s” … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Keaton, Lulu and Hodge taste the benefits of “Arthur’s Whisky”

Of all the “Mad Money,” “Poms” and “Book Club” trifles that Oscar winner Diane Keaton has made since stardom faded, “Arthur’s Whisky” might be the most trifling. But this British nothing of a “fountain of youth” comedy manages to go … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Band’s music video becomes “found footage” in this creepy “Director’s Cut”

And you thought “Found footage” horror was dead. Silly you. This thriller makes its way into public view (streaming) Mar. 18.

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Netfixable? Beware of anything the Germans deem “Delicious”

Writer-director Nele Mueller-Stöfen’s “Delicious” hides its secrets well. But if you’re observant, the clues pile up long before the thriller’s too-patient build-up drops its big revelations on you. She’s tapping into international inequality in this horrific tale of German “haves” … Continue reading

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Series Preview: Seth Rogen runs “The Studio,” and famous faces fill this series about Making Movies

Catherine O’Hara and Martin Scorsese, Olivia Wilde and Ike Barinholtz and Kathryn Hahn and Zac Efron and Anthony Mackie and Bryan Cranston and Paul Dano and Nicholas Stoller are on the cast list — some have cameos, playing themselves — … Continue reading

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BOX OFFICE: “Mickey 17?” “$19.” Bong Joon Ho and RPatts deserve better

A robust but hardly dominant Thursday afternoon and evening launches the new Bong Joon Ho sci-fi satire “Mickey 17” to what looks to be a healthy if not remotely “blockbuster” opening weekend. Deadline.com reported that a $2.5 million Thursday folded … Continue reading

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Series Preview: A rimshot sitcom tailor-made for Nathan Lane — “Mid Century Modern”

“Will & Grace” producers, Linda Lavin as the mother and Nathan Lane as mother hen/mother superior and host to a couple of old friends (Matt Bomer and Nathan Lee Graham) in a gay sitcom for a gay bashing era. This … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: French Fille admits “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life”

A writer’s sojourn in “The Jane Austen Residency” is sweet, romantic and fun? Or will it be, as the French say, “le hot mess?” “What are you waiting for, Mr. Darcy?” This French flavored Laura Piani play upon “Pride and … Continue reading

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Movie Review: R. Patts is Labor at its Most Disposable — “Mickey 17”

Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho’s latest film is an arch sci-fi parable about the troubled world we live in. An Earth-born colonist/laborer on the distant planet Nilfheim has been recruited by a charismatic but dimwitted poseur/ex-senator/cult-leader whose “propogate the species” … Continue reading

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Movie Review: When Ireland isn’t Enough, “The Problem with People”

A couple of top flight character actors — Irish mainstay Colm Meaney and American kvetcher Paul Reiser — pair up for an Irish comedy about family history, inheritance, grudges and cultures clashing in “The Problem with People.” It’s got the … Continue reading

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